Hi Everyone!

I’m such a bad correspondent…but it’s not my fault! Not only am I a voracious writer of very long books (trying to fix that), but I’m also an introvert who can open an ebook, and the next time I return to consciousness, half the day is gone. I have over 14,000 ebooks in my poor Kindle, while people just keep throwing more at me—books with fabulous titles, eye-catching covers, and amazing blurbs. *sigh* What’s a woman to do but download them and try frantically to put them in some sort of TBR order!

In between all that reading, I’m trying to juggle working on two books. One, called Dance With Me, was supposed to be a novella, but the characters insisted on taking it just over the novella limit of 40,000 words into 45,000. Here’s the blurb (definitely a work-in-progress blurb, too. I need blurb-writing help):

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Dance with Me

Skye Harrington is excited when her twin sister and her group take a break, eagerly anticipating the chance to spend time with her sister and her talented group of six male backup singers/dancers. Skye has been nursing a secret crush on one man since she was seventeen, and when she sees him again, she wonders if she will ever gather enough courage to confess her feelings or be held back by the fear that he’ll tell her she’s like his little sister and he wants to stay friends. However, in an unexpectedly intimate and clandestine way, she discovers one of the men has been hiding deep feelings for her. But he’s determined to keep his identity a secret, mainly because of Skye’s twin’s possessiveness over her partners. As Skye’s relationship with her mystery lover blossoms, she realizes she’s falling in love with him despite her internal conflict. How can she love one man yet still feel as though she’s betraying the one she’s loved for so long? And given her luck, what are the chances they’re even the same man?

When Skye’s enigmatic lover is forced to reveal himself to her, their relationship flourishes. But her happiness is soon darkened by the realization that someone in the house is deliberately causing friction among the residents, leading to arguments and even fights. Is someone trying to break up the new couple, or are their plans bigger? Is their aim to break the popular entertainers apart? Skye finds it difficult to know who to trust, especially her twin, who has inexplicably become mean and spiteful. Struggling with the possibility that someone among her family and dear friends is an enemy who seems to have no motive, Skye knows her future is on hold unless she exposes who, in a once-happy group of people, is determined to tear apart relationships, both business and personal.

I don’t have a cover yet.

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And while I’m finishing that up, I’m also editing a time-travel fantasy romance that takes a young woman from her present home to the late 1800s and into the arms of a pirate–at least, she thinks he’s a pirate. I’ve already written it; it needs a really careful edit, so back to that! Here’s its blurb:

Spellreever

Julianna Carroll has everything a modern woman could want. Not only is she a talented artist, wealthy and single, and an expert in Krav Maga, but she owns a successful gallery, jets around the world, and attends glitzy galas. But all she sees is a life of superficial friends and single-minded men. She needs to get away. When her beloved aunt invites her to visit her on the Louisiana coast, Julianna can’t wait. She’s captivated by the ghostly ruins of a nearby old mansion. And by her aunt’s handyman, Conor, a striking and enigmatic man studying the pirates who once inhabited the area.

Julianna soon discovers something is happening on the old mansion grounds at night. The mansion comes to life. Ghostly revelers arrive and depart through the night just as they once did in the past. Stunned to discover that they both can see the mansion come to life, Conor and Julianna watch each night as the otherworldly house enjoys an endless gala as they travel through a cycle of their time. They quickly become friends, and then more. As Julianna plans to tell Conor that she loves him, she overhears a damning conversation that puts him in a bad light. Heartbroken, she flees to the ruins, where she is injured and vanishes.

She awakens in a large, antique-furnished room. When she meets her captor, Julianna is enraged. She’s aboard a massive sailing ship, everyone is dressed like pirates, and walking around like he owns everything—Conor! How did he arrange this, and why would he play such a cruel hoax on her? And why is he staring at her as though she’s a crazy person? But overwhelming evidence forces her to accept that somehow, Conor has become Raven, a British privateer, and she’s in the 19th century. Raven is in American waters illegally, on a task for the crown. Through a mix-up, Raven ends up with Julianna. It’s not an unpleasant discovery, as the lady is quite alluring despite her strange behavior and penchant for attacking and harming his men. When she demands men’s clothes, he knows she isn’t the meek young woman he expected. And when their passion becomes a consuming fire for them, danger arises. Raven vows to take Julianna away. But things go awry. Julianna is shot and loses consciousness.

Julianna awakens again, this time in a hospital, where she’s told she was in a coma. Her present is a fusion of past and present, of things that never happened which are now her present—and she’s pregnant! When could that have happened in the present? And why is her aunt insistent on hearing the “dreams” Julianna had while in a coma? What does the older woman know? Her aunt tries to explain how time rifts are torn and how they must be repaired once they are torn. Julianna must go back and find the Spellreever and stop them before too much damage is done.

When Julianna returns to the past, she understands what has happened and knows what she has to do. She doesn’t care where she ends up as long as it’s with Raven. But life can never be that simple. Somewhere in her past exists someone powerful enough to pull her back and forth in time—the Spellreever. What is their endgame? What do they want from her? And how will she find and stop them when she doesn’t even know if they are male or female?

Julianna hasn’t ever been one to shy away from peril. Whoever is playing with her life and that of the man she loves—and now their unborn child—has awakened a tiger with sharp claws and teeth and unresolved anger issues. She wants this to stop, and as she gets closer to her adversary, she will discover the most shocking surprise of all. Nothing is, or ever was, what she thought it was. And this rift might be impossible to repair without hurting the people she loves.

Here’s the cover!

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So, there we are– Two WIP blurbs. If anyone is interested in beta reading, let me know. The first one is rather spicy just so you know. I mean, they both have their moments, but the first one–whew, I’m definitely going out on a limb there!